The Department of Energy is funding $28 million in research and development programs focused at advancing the use of clean hydrogen in power generation, industrial processes, and transportation.
DOE announced Monday that the financing opportunity will encourage the deployment of carbon capture technologies to generate clean hydrogen from waste materials such as plastics, biomass, legacy coal, and municipal solid waste.
The projects will focus on the following areas: cost reductions for clean hydrogen for the DOE’s Hydrogen Shot effort, clean hydrogen production from high-volume waste materials and biomass, and sensors and controls for waste co-gasification.
Additionally, the FOA funds front-end engineering design studies for carbon capture systems at home steam methane reforming and autothermal reforming plants that generate hydrogen from natural gas.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management announced the FOA, which supports the Biden Administration’s objective of attaining net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
